Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP is a premier, full-service law firm with offices in New York, Silicon Valley and Paris. Firm lawyers are leading practitioners in their respective fields. The firm represents public and private companies – ranging from Global 1000 to middle-market and emerging growth companies – across a broad range of industries, as well as funds, institutions and individuals.

Our lawyers have exceptional credentials, with outstanding academic records and distinguished careers in business, government service, academia and law. Many have edited top law reviews or have clerked for leading federal judges. They have rich and wide-ranging experience solving complex business issues in partnership with their clients.

Kurt M.
Denk

Associate

Kurt M. Denk maintains a diverse practice focusing on general civil and complex commercial litigation. He has assisted in representing clients in a variety of advertising, antitrust, bankruptcy, contract and real estate matters, including in litigation, arbitration, investigation and proceedings before the National Advertising Division and the National Advertising Review Board. Most recently he was part of Kramer Levin teams that secured a $250 million settlement in an antitrust class action of consumer packaged goods companies against News Corporation and affiliated co-defendants, represented major consumer goods companies in Lanham Act false advertising litigation, and concluded a major financial institution’s long-standing contract dispute with a former high-level employee, first in federal court and then in an arbitration proceeding.

Mr. Denk dedicates significant time to pro bono work. Through Kramer Levin’s pro bono program, he has represented, or assisted in representing, several asylum applicants, a class of public assistance and food stamp recipients in a suit against New York state and city agencies, and a nonprofit revising its bylaws pursuant to New York’s Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013, and thereafter pursuing a corporate reorganization. Mr. Denk also co-authored various amici curiae briefs supporting marriage equality in cases before a number of the United States Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States, including Obergefell and related cases, in which the Court ruled in favor of civil marriage equality.

As an elected member of Kramer Levin’s Associates Committee, Mr. Denk represents the firm’s associates in supporting firm goals such as business and professional development, mentoring, and recruitment and retention.